Synology DiskStation DS920+ 4-bay NAS Review

Rating: 8.5.

Sitting under Synology's Personal and Home User banner, the DiskStation DS920+ is the latest addition to the companies 4-bay NAS lineup in the Plus series. The DiskStation DS920+ comes with support for a pair of M.2 NVMe SSD slots for performing cache operations.

Powered by an Intel Celeron J4125 quad-core processor clocked at 2.0GHz (burst up to 2.7GHz) the DiskStation DS920+ comes with 4GB of DDR4-2666MHz memory but should you need more the motherboard supports up to 8GB via a single SO-DIMM slot. It also supports an AES-NI hardware encryption engine.

Synology quote Sequential throughput performance for the DS920+ as up to 225.99MB/s for reads and 225.90MB/s for writes although those figures are from the NAS being tested with both LAN ports being used in Link Aggregation mode.

Synology back the DS920+ with a 3-year warranty.

Physical Specifications
Processor: Intel Celeron J4125 (quad-core 2.0GHz, 2.7GHz burst).
Memory: 4 GB DDR4-2666.
Gigabit Ethernet Ports: 2.
Rear panel connectors: 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x eSATA.
Front panel connectors: 1 x USB 3.0.
RAID support: SynologyHybrid RAID, RAID 0,1,5,6 and 10.
Cooling: Active – 2 x 92mm.
Drive Bays Supported: 4.
Maximum hard drive size supported: 16TB.
Maximum Capacity: 64TB.
Maximum single volume size: 108 TB.
M.2 slots: 2 x NMVe.
Hardware encryption: Y (AES NI).
Internal File System support: Btrfs or EXT4.
Dimensions (D x W x H): 223 x 199 x 166mm.
Weight: 2.24kg.

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